Bath salt recipes

Batch salt is easy to make and a nice gift.

You don’t need a bath tub to use batch salt, for a foot bath you only need a bowl. Remember that you can adjust fragrance and color in most of our formulations: Use HexaCol red when you prefer a red colour or FO farmers jasmin for a jasmin fragrance.

Bath caviar

Bath salts are fun to use and fragrance the water used for bathing. Bath caviar has an additional purpose. It consists mainly of urea, a substance that occurs naturally in the skin and helps to keep the skin moisturised.

Materials

  • 100 g Urea
  • 5 drops (± 0,5 ml) HexaCol green (or: several different colours HexaCol, only the water soluble kinds!)
  • 12 drops (± 1,5 ml) Bornyl acetate
  • Dropper plastic 1 ml
  • Bottle TUBBY (3-4 will do)

Instruction

Put the urea beads in a glass or metal container. Add about 4 drops of bornyl acetate and 2 drops of HexaCol green. Stir the urea with a metal spoon until the colour is dispersed evenly. Add another amount of fragrance and colour and stir. Repeat untill everything is added: a bit more or less is no problem. When the colour is even the fragrance is too. Fill the TUBBY bottles with the bath caviar. Bath caviar usualy keeps at least 6 months.

Alternative: make several different colours of bath caviar, put them in different containers and add these one after another to the bottle, to create layers of colour.

Tips

  • Use a funnel to fill the TUBBY bottles. Our funnels with a diameter up to 60 mm work fine.
  • Do not use plastic or wooden materials to mix, but glass, metal or well glazed pottery instead. Colour and fragrance can be cleaned from hard surfaces but only hardly or not from softer materials.
  • HexaCol can stain skin, clothes, wood, plastic, wall paper … make sure to work carefull. Clean immediately after spilling.
  • Bornyl acetate is not a hazardous material, neither is any other material from this formula. Still we recommend to take care when using raw materials. More information about these materials can be found on the product page of each material in the webshop.
  • You can use any of our water soluble HexaCols to colour (so NOT the oil green) and many of our fragrances, but not all.

Lemon bath salt

A simple formulation for fresh scented bath salt. The salt base is magnesium sulfate, which is good for the muscles according to some people, but in any case a good bath salt base.

Materials

  • 250 g Magnesium sulfate
  • 10 drops (± 0,5 ml) HexaCol yellow or green
  • 35 drops (± 1,5 ml) EO Litsea Cubeba (org) of EO Lemongrass (org)
  • Dropper plastic 1 ml
  • Container, e.g. Bottle TUBBY 30 ml – this formulation is for about 7 to 8 TUBBY bottles

Instruction

You can mix everything in the jar we provide the magnesium sulfate in, but a large glass or metal bowl and spoon works easier.

Add about 7 drops essential oil to the magnesium sulfate and 2 drops HexaCol. Put the lid on the jar and shake colour and fragrance thouroughly in the salt base (or stir the salt base with a spoon). Repeat and continue adding until you added about 35 drops of essential oil and about 10 drops HexaCol into the magnesium sulfate. A little more or less is no problem.

If the colour is dispersed evenly the fragrance is dispersed evenly too. Put it in the containers, it usualy keeps for at least 6 months.

Tips

  • Use a funnel to fill the TUBBY bottles. Our funnels with a diameter up to 60 mm work fine.
  • Do not use materials made from wood or plastic to mix, but use glass, metal or well glazed pottery. Colour and fragrance can be washed from hard surfaces, but may be hard to remove from wood and plastic.
  • HexaCol can stain skin, clothes, wood, plastic, wall paper … be carefull! In case of spillage: clean asap.
  • Essential oil is natural, and this oil is even organic. Still it can damage the eyes and irritate the skin. An allergic response on the skin is possible too. For that reason: make sure to wear safety goggles and protecting gloves. More information can be found on the product page of the raw materials used.
  • Do you prefer other colours or fragrances: all water soluble HexaCol can be used (so not the oil green) and many of our other fragrance materials, but not all.